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What is Zabbix?
Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.
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What is Zabbix?
Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. The core program is free, with paid support from the vendor. It provides out-of-the-box templates from Zabbix and community developers. Zabbix includes network health measurements, including memory utilization, packet loss rate, and predictive trends in bandwidth usage and downtimes. These measurements can be adjusted using custom thresholds for network health and security issue alerts.
Zabbix also offers automation capabilities, including automatic network detection, configuration management, and report generation. It also enables remote and scripted remediation efforts when an issue is detected. The open-source format of the software is designed to support customization by users and the community.
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Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.
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The most common users of Zabbix are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Users of Zabbix have made several recommendations based on their experiences with the open-source monitoring tool.
Many reviewers suggest setting up a separate virtual server for Zabbix to facilitate an easy installation and configuration process. This approach allows for better manageability and flexibility in integrating Zabbix into existing infrastructure.
Zabbix is highly recommended for its ability to provide customizable alerts and monitoring capabilities. Users appreciate the flexibility to tailor notifications according to their specific requirements, allowing them to stay informed about critical events and issues.
Several users recommend Zabbix specifically for network performance monitoring. They find it suitable for large-scale environments, making it an ideal choice for big companies that need to monitor metrics across tens of thousands of devices.
While many users find Zabbix to be a valuable monitoring tool, some have also noted a few considerations. It has been mentioned by some reviewers that Zabbix may not be very intuitive and can be challenging to set up initially. To overcome this hurdle, users advise seeking support from the Zabbix IRC channel or having a Linux administrator assist with the server setup.
A few users have observed that Zabbix can be resource hungry compared to other monitoring solutions like Nagios. They mention that tuning and optimizing Zabbix may require additional effort to achieve optimal performance.
Overall, reviewers recommend conducting due diligence and planning ahead before implementing Zabbix. While it may require some initial investment in terms of time and resources, users find that Zabbix offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities and steadily improves its user interface over time. For smaller businesses or those utilizing virtual machines, reviewers suggest giving Zabbix a try as it can be deployed effectively in such environments.
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April 20, 2023
Review Of Zabbix - Worth The Effort Eventually
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Zabbix to monitor pretty much everything plugged into our corporate network. This includes the basics like firewalls and switches and server hosts to the weird stuff like phone system PBXs and time clocks. Zabbix does have a steep learning curve and I had to watch a bunch of YT videos to understand how it wants to be setup. Since its open source, it likes to assume that everybody using Zabbix is going to have the same kind of skills as the developers, which is what holds back Zabbix from a bigger user base. It is very powerful software and can display enormous amounts of USEFUL information but its all hidden behind a user interface that is not as user friendly as it could be. I spent a good 40 hours doing the setup and configuration of Zabbix when I started at my current employer. The dashboards showing live firewall and switch activity blew away my boss and he said this was a game changer. The next question was could he tinker with it and add in more stuff to be watched. I said yes sure but have you got 10 hours for me to show the basics? My review of Zabbix is that it is fantastic software, if you have the time to dedicate to the setup.
- Graphs of live network activity from switches and firewalls
- Shows SNMP data from hardware server out of band SOCs
- Complex alerting from hardware and lots of different kinds of OSs
- User interface
- Very steep learning curve
- Documentation is extensive but it doesn't provide good examples of how to complete basic tasks
- Alerting
- Showing usage trends
- Good ROI when trying to get ahead of network related problems instead of waiting for users to complain
- Good ROI when doing upgrades or exploratory work on a neglected network
- Good ROI when showing usage trends to management showing higher actual usage versus what was thought to be happening
Zabbix has no financial cost, PRTG is very expensive but just as impressive capability wise.
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Alerting and monitoring of network activity in a non-security context mostly done by SNMP but it can talk to Windows and Linux hosts as well.
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A general system administrator can use Zabbix as long as they can dedicate the time for the initial setup. A junior help desk would be challenged with the setup of Zabbix. It would be a lot better if the developers made it more accessible to folks who don't necessarily have a coding back ground as there are features that require understanding of coding vocab - which is kinda normal for open source stuff.
- Alerting
- Monitoring
- Displaying trends for usage
- Has a nice feature where dashboards can be customized
- I would like to see Zabbix being able to monitor clouds natively like O365 or AWS
No
- Integration with Other Systems
We wanted something for monitoring that could reliably speak SNMP because most hardware does that by default
No change
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- I should not have used the demo appliance install
No because it wasn't needed.
No
No sadly that has not happened.
- Logging in
- Logging out
- Everything else
No
December 17, 2019
One monitoring tool that has it all
As an open-source monitoring solution, Zabbix is our preferred choice. Our company has been using it since 2017 to monitor all infrastructure. The overview we get from it is fabulous. It's immediate and it provides very clear information on many levels depending on what you want to see based on user roles and permissions. You can configure absolutely everything you can image with it.
- Zabbix does monitor any kind of IT solution for us like servers, networks, services, virtual machines, databases or websites.
- The new interface on Zabbix is really great.
- Out of box reports could be updated.
- If it's open source it doesn't mean it's free.
- Immediate monitoring alerts have allowed us to react to system downtime immediately.
- We know our system uptime for 100%.
- LogicMonitor and Datadog
It's much easier to get the trained specialists that have experience with this tool in our country.
December 05, 2019
Zabbix a good solution if you have the time to dive in.
Zabbix is currently one of our main monitoring applications (next to Munin). It is used to monitor the state of hardware (temperatures, hardware-errors), the state of the operating system (running, load, memory usage, etc.) and the state of services (running, network-connections, load, etc.). Additionally, some services can report on further metrics, e.g. if files are outdated or show unreasonable behavior. Through the trigger-framework, we can start automated mitigation, as well as manually inspect the issue.
- History graphs show long-term trends, but still allow you to dig down to the minute.
- Custom dashboards allow for teams to only monitor what's relevant for them.
- The trigger-framework is pretty mighty and can act on a lot of metrics. This makes it also sometimes hard to comprehend.
- Setting up items, triggers, hosts, classes, etc. is first tedious, secondly not very obvious.
- Auto-discovery can get tricky if you don't have the correct configuration bits.
- Overall the UI is functional, but not necessarily pretty.
- Zabbix is one of the tools used to determine our SLA metrics.
- It helps to show trends and upgrade the hardware before reaching a bottleneck.
- The alerting framework allows to automatically action countermeasures in case something goes wrong.
We're using Munin in parallel to Zabbix, mostly out of legacy reasons. While Munin in the version used here only allows static graphs through image-files, Zabbix clearly wins here with the option to zoom in and out.
I used Nagios many years ago and it was quite similar to Zabbix. Since I haven't used it in a while, I don't know how it compares currently.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Zabbix to monitor network assets and customer links to generate reports and resolve potential problems in its infrastructure.
- Monitor connection availability.
- Monitor network assets.
- Generate reports on the performance of network assets.
- Generate reports on the performance of customer connections.
- Increase the number of configurable triggers.
- Clean the interface a little more.
- Leave the operation a little lighter.
- It improved our view of how customers' network connections worked.
- We can make proactive monitoring more efficient.
- Better customer feedback, with data collected from monitoring through Zabbix.
Zabbix was adopted in our framework due to the value, the hardware requirements, the knowledge we had available and the vast documentation on the internet.
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They are Level 1, 2 and 3 network analysts and IT analysts.
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Knowledge of programming, the operation of network devices and servers.
- Monitor servers
- Monitor Routers
- Generation of charts showing performance of network links.
- Até agora não foram percebidas.
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Zabbix replace PRTG
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- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
An important factor in deciding to deploy zabbix in our organization was the extensive documentation and community surrounding the tool, making it easier to use.
I do not think of changing anything in the way it would proceed from the way it was done earlier.
September 17, 2019
Zabbix is the best open source-based NOC platform you can find
In the beginning, we started using Zabbix in a small deployment, running the Linux box, deployed as a docker container. As we got familiar with the infrastructure, we decided to start using to basically monitor some servers. As we got confident, we started to monitor all the servers on-premise and some servers on a private cloud and finally, we included the network assets. Currently, it's been used just by our IT department and our main goal is to have a tool capable to monitor and early detect infrastructure issues to act as quick as possible.
- Zabbix is capable of monitors servers using its own agent. With that, it can collect detailed information about the asset and store it in its own database. Once that information is stored, Zabbix can alert potential issues and even be used to evaluate and run analysis for capacity planning.
- Zabbix servers are very simple to deploy. You can run on a Windows box, Linux box or even in Docker containers. It's very scalable and robust and doesn't need too many resources to run.
- Due to its open framework, you can easily integrate Zabbix to other front end platforms, like Grafana. We did that to leverage our previous knowledge to present graphics in Grafana with data sourced by Zabbix.
- Having worked with other similar tools, I tend to say that the user experience could be improved in some areas. The elements on the user interface are a little confusing, the concept behind them could be a little more intuitive.
- The discovery process could be improved, giving suggestions and filling some fields with common options, for example.
- When you add a host that runs it's own Zabbix agent, like a server, it's easy to manage. On the other hand, if you want to add a host which is a network device, for example, you need to run extra steps to ensure you'll see the information you want. That could be improved by using some kind of wizard or tutorial on the interface to guide you.
- The positive impact is that, In general, these kinds of platforms tend to be very expensive if you go on the market for commercial versions. Considering this is an open-source platform, you can save a lot of money on licenses and consulting and use that money to empower your own team to build your customized NOC solution.
- As a company that operates 24x6, it's very important that we keep all the systems running. Although we have several ways to improve availability with clusters, cloud,etc., monitoring and alerting is still one of the most efficient ways to keep the business running.
Although we still use Cisco Prime for network devices, when comparing Zabbix with Nagios, for example, you see that Zabbix is more robust, stable, easy to deploy and has an enterprise focus that other tools don't have. Also, the fact that the Zabbix community is very active is also a relevant point in favor of it. You can count on the community to help you a lot.